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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
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Love
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A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
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[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.
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I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness
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Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
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One more drink and I'll be under the host.
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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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The finest woman that ever walked the streets.
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Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said I do, and I also wash and iron them. I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.
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Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
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More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
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